When The PoPo are Never Wrong

Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by Opus, May 25, 2019.

  1. Aamcotrans

    Aamcotrans Road Train Member

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  3. sealevel

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    I can promise you if the video was one minute long the truck driver would look equally as stupid. I have seen this before on the loop around Charlotte. You know what they are trying to do.
    It was a complete fail on the officers part, but the truck driver should have known to leave plenty of space.
    I can't pick a winner in this. All I see is losers.
     
  4. sealevel

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    When I have seen it done it was just one cop car weaving back and fourth across five lanes like a Nascar driver cleaning his tires on caution laps. It wasn't something that just happened out of the blue. In the video you can see the interstate had been controlled by the lack of traffic ahead.
    The officer shouldn't have assumed anyone knew what he was trying to do and therefore is at fault.
    My number one rule of thumb when I click my seatbelt in the morning is to remind myself that everyone around me is dumb as a box of rocks. They should teach that to officers as well. It's cheaper than the Smith System.
     
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  5. Opus

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    Dunno what DWB means, but apparently not.
    Actually, I've only been pulled over once in 7 years and that was for an impromptu level 1.
    I passed.
     
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  6. JonJon78

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    . DWB stands for "Driving While Black"

    It's nothing but a sorry attempt to pull the race card.
     
  7. Opus

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    How does he know I'm not black?
     
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  8. Lepton1

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    It can be any number of reasons. One reason is if they need X minutes of traffic free freeway to hoist an electrical wire over the freeway. Rather than shut down the freeway and divert traffic, then reopen it, etc. they simply use this technique to create enough traffic free freeway to string and raise the wire. By the time traffic gets there it is secured enough and high enough for traffic to clear it.

    This maneuver is for pretty much any situation that requires a short span of traffic free freeway. It's also why the penalty for running it is harsh.

    That trucker was DWAC (Driving Without A Clue). He was at fault.
     
  9. mover man

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    You can say it is a sorry attempt. Honestly I understand you saying that.
    However It is not an attempt to pull the race or ANY other card.
    It's just a fact of life.
    I do not, nor have ever! Pulled the race card. I do not want this to turn into pathetic race discussion. So I will close with this, and back out. (You have at least one black friend right)? Go ask thier opinion.
    The poster above was the most correct. He was dwac.
     
  10. ZVar

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    Hate to tell you this, but claiming race was why you were pulled over is pulling the race card.
     
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  11. sealevel

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    I'm just amazed at how a white dude getting hit by a cop turned into a race discussion.:(
    This is why I enjoy dogs.....and beer.....and being left alone. My god.
     
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